"Straight!" he repeated.

"All crutches are straight, ain't they ?" "Possibly; but some cripples are crooked." So it was to Mr.Daniels, after all, that the damage suit came, and Heman brought about a three-hundred-dollar settlement.

Most of East Wellmouth pronounced Kendrick "too pesky particular," but in some quarters, and these not by any means the least influential, his attitude gained approval and respect.

This feeling was strengthened by his taking Edgar Wingate's suit against that same railroad.

Edgar's woodlot was set on fire by sparks from the locomotive and John forced payment, and liberal payment, for the damage.